Sentences with phrase «young egg cells»
They found that chromosomes were always distributed correctly in young egg cells, but that a little less than 10 % of older cells suffered from segregation errors.
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Philippa Taylor explained why she thought it was an encouraging discovery: «There could be real benefits for some people, particularly young girls or people who are going through cancer treatment or chemotherapy and that destroys any chance of having their own eggs and growing eggs cells so if you can remove ovarian tissue, grow some egg cells outside the womb and implant them after the treatment then that could be very positive.»
The idea is that the mitochondria — cellular energy generators — in young, primitive cells function much better than those in the mature eggs collected for IVF.
They want to explore whether mitochondria from younger donors» cells may stimulate the older eggs» ability to be fertilized and develop normally.